Our last default template had a match of "node()" which incidentally matched everything, including text nodes. Since this has the same priority according to the XSLT spec, section 5.5: https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#conflict this is an error. Also according to the same spec section, the XSLT processor may signal the error or pick the last rule. This was uncovered with libxslt 1.1.35 which contains the following commit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/commit/b0074eeca3c6b21b4da14fdf7... which makes the build fail with: runtime error: file ../docs/page.xsl line 223 element element xsl:element: The effective name '' is not a valid QName. because our last rule also matches text nodes and we are trying to extract the node name out of them. To fix this we change the match to "*" which only matches elements and not all the nodes, and to avoid any possible errors with different XSLT processors we also bump the priority of the match="text()" rule a little higher, just in case someone needs to use an XSLT processor that chooses signalling the error instead of the optional recovery. https://bugs.gentoo.org/833586 Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/page.xsl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/page.xsl b/docs/page.xsl index fd67918d3b08..72a6fa084235 100644 --- a/docs/page.xsl +++ b/docs/page.xsl @@ -215,11 +215,11 @@ </xsl:element> </xsl:template> - <xsl:template match="text()" mode="copy"> + <xsl:template match="text()" mode="copy" priority="0"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:template> - <xsl:template match="node()" mode="copy"> + <xsl:template match="*" mode="copy"> <xsl:element name="{name()}"> <xsl:copy-of select="./@*"/> <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy" /> -- 2.35.1